Tarom unlikely to resume direct flights to USA says president Basescu

Newsroom 21/05/2012 | 08:40

Romania’s state-owned airline Tarom is unlikely to resume direct flights to the USA as this would generate substantial losses for the company said Romanian President Traian Basescu this Saturday, in Chicago, during a meeting with Romanians living in the USA.

“Flights to the USA caused losses worth tens of thousands of dollars per flight and millions of dollars each year. Tarom is a company which is no longer subsidized and must look at it own survival,” said the president adding that Tarom could not face the competition on transatlantic flights.

Between 2000 and 2003 Tarom gave up the routes to Chicago, New York, Montreal, Beijing, and Bangkok as well as several internal routes as flights to these destinations were unprofitable.